magical girl ellie gets a minion
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There's an empty office just there.

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Why don't they step in. "... I want to say 'where do you see yourself in five years' but that's ... probably not appropriate. For a host of reasons."

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"What do you imagine those to be?"

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"I just insulted you? Also don't you work on timescales way larger than that?"

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"You'll have to try much harder than that to insult me. And five years is a surprisingly convenient length of time to plan around. Have you covered twentieth-century Russia in your history class yet?"

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"No...?"

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"The Soviet government of that period centrally controlled their economy through a series of five-year plans. It was... mostly unsuccessful, but that can be attributed to the planners' rigid insistence on ideological dogma over empirical reality."

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".... ooooh! That's when Leonid Kantorovich lived, right? We learned about him a couple years ago in introductory linear programming."

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"Kantorovich... Ah. Yes."

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"I mean, I don't know much about him, we just learned the stuff he invented in class."

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"He was assigned the task of efficiently allocating the production of... something. Perhaps lumber. In response to which task he invented linear programming."

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"Anyway. Five years. How long does it take to get promoted? Is there tracking?"

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"That is highly dependent on who you know, and what it is you wish to do."

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Frown. "Who you know?"

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"The MSY is a political system, and political systems run on people. People run on other people."

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"Right, so -- who do you know? Who are the good people to know in general?"

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"I'm acquainted with most the regular hunters here. Jenna Iverly, the Rules Committee representative. Sara and Amanda Bosconi, they head up Logistics. Makoto, you know. And I know a few people on the West Coast and in the Soul Guard."

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"Soul Guard?"

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"The active branch of the judiciary."

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"Lawyers or law enforcement?"

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"Enforcement."

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"I guess they're in charge, then?"

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"No. Neither in theory nor practice."

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"It can't all be like in the information packet, right? There has to be someone who has more power than they should -- some way it really works that's never written down on paper."

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"It more or less does, actually. First Executive Akemi and the other founders are still around, and their... mm, idealism has colored the MSY from the beginning in many ways."

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